Forty Millenniums of Cultivation

But Li Yao had his own advantages, too.

Firstly, most of the computational ability of the Fuxi fleet would be used to resist the iron defense lines of the Empyrean Terminus Sector and the Star Glory Federation, or even the coalition army of the Imperium of True Human Beings and the Star Glory Federation.

Millions of starships, tens of millions of crystal suits, and even billions of space shuttles were engaged in the most brutal battle in the sea of stars in the Pangu Universe since the civil war between the Supreme Emperor and the Blood God ten thousand years ago. Even though the computational ability of

the Fuxis was almost unlimited, they would not be able to cope with the situation.

Secondly, what Fuxi did not know was that the enemies he was faced with were ‘Small Ming’, ‘Wen Wen’, and ‘Punching King’, whose life form was better than his even though their computational ability was lower.

Li Yao did not know what would happen when the tentacles of the Fuxi invaded the Spiritual Nexus system of the capital city and even pierced into the core of the defense network, crashing into Xiao Ming, Wen Wen, and the boxing champion brutally.

Thirdly, Li Yao himself, or more precisely, the ‘Earth’ hidden deep inside Li Yao’s soul.

‘When Fuxi met Earth, what kind of unpredictable changes would it bring to Li Yao, the Pangu Universe, and even the entire multiverse?

However, the premise of all this was that the Fuxi could not complete its ‘fusion’. It could not swallow Lu Qingchen’s soul and allow the Fuxi to be reborn with Lu Qingchen’s will.

Once Fuxi finished the upgrade and turned into an intelligent creature on the same level as Xiao Ming, Wen Wen, the Fist King, and even Li Yao, his superior computational ability would allow him to crush them easily and even swallow Xiao Ming, Wen Wen, the Fist King, and Li Yao one by one.

At that time, there would be no weakness that could subdue it. The terrifying future it depicted—the entire Pangu Universe would become part of its body, and it would be able to perfectly utilize all the resources inside, including the radiation of every star—was indeed possible!

“Lu Qingchen, you are indeed dead, aren’t you?”

Li Yao mumbled to himself and gazed at the scene of soul reconstruction not far away.

As the endless streams of data flooded in, carrying a lot of Lu Qingchen’s soul pieces and the remaining souls retrieved from the souls of the four members of the yaksha squad, they congregated and outlined a network of bones, veins, and nerves.

It was an extremely weird scene. It was like… Li Yao was lurking in a certain ‘mother’ and watching the entire process of the fertilization.

He saw that the embryo of the soul was getting more and more plump and round. It looked like a baby that was crouching.

‘As the ‘soul embryo’ was fluctuating, Li Yao seemed to be able to sense the memories, will, and scent of Lu Qingchen, Chu Zhixiao, Guan Qixing, Yuan Kou, and Yun Haixin.

“It appears that the Fuxis are planning to combine the souls of the four members of the yaksha squad into a brand-new soul and use it as the carrier of their self-awareness.”

It can’t be. Mixing souls together is like kneading dough? Li Yao secretly clicked his tongue.

“Since one soul can be divided into two personalities, like the relationship between you and me, naturally, multiple souls can be combined, too. Isn’t ‘Guan Qixing’ a combination of seven remaining souls? It is evident that the Fuxis have been doing such research for a long time.

“The mysteries of the soul are still unsolved,” the mental devil said. “Everything is possible. Let’s take you as an example. Are you ‘Earth Li Yao’ or ‘Heaven’s Origin Li Yao’, or more precisely, ‘Earth Li Yao and Heaven’s Origin Li Yao combined?”

Li Yao was dazed for a moment. For some reason, the mental devil’s words seemed to have expanded the cracks deep inside his soul, allowing him to sense more secrets from Earth.

Soul fusion.

The souls of countless experts melded together and turned into new, ignorant individuals.

The eternal reincarnation came from every corner of the universe. The souls of countless top experts fell into the eternal reincarnation like ripples in a swirl. They were inevitably melded together and could not find their original path or their real self.

“So familiar. Why does this scene feel so familiar?”

Li Yao said softly.

“What did you say?”

This time, it was the mental devil that was dazed.

“L… I seem to have thought of something, but I can’t grasp it. Those damn memories are as unpredictable as smoke in the wind. My head hurts! It hurts!”

Li Yao sniffed.

“pain my ass! We don’t have a ‘head’ right now!”

The mental devil bellowed.

Don’t bother about the details. In short, I feel that everything around me is very familiar, as if something similar had happened once, or countless times. I feel that there is a power surging and tingling in the crevice leading to Earth from the depths of my soul. Something wants it and is about to burst

out!”

Li Yao tried to control the waves of his soul and continued observing the scene of the reconstruction of the Fuxi not far away.

At this moment, a new ‘soul embryo’ had been born, but the embryo still carried the distinctive features of Lu Qingchen and the members of the yaksha squad. It was independent and exclusive, at least not compatible with the enormous database of the Fuxi Clan.

There was a riot in the depths of Fuxi’s brain. The crystal bubbles that stored countless data floated up and surrounded the translucent embryo of the soul. Every crystal bubble extended a long, narrow line into the embryo of the soul.

Every crystal bubble represented a virtual world that had been calculated by the real-time data of the Fuxis. The enormous data streams from the virtual worlds enveloped the embryo of the soul and injected it into the newborn one after another.

Li Yao could clearly see that the crystal-clear embryo of the soul used to be translucent, but it was gradually corrupted by the colorful data inside the crystal bubble. Some of the chaotic data was falling off, dispersing, and vanishing. Some other data was filling the bones, veins, and nerves of the embryo

of the soul, trying to tum it into part of the core database.

From the perspective of the mental devil, it could see through the pictures on the surface such as ‘crystal bubbles’ and ‘soul embryos’ and grasp the essence of the whole thing, The unnecessary and annoying parts of the soul embryos, such as the overly intense self-awareness of Lu Qingchen and Chu

Zhixiao, as well as the meaningless memory pieces, were being peeled off by the Fuxi and Li Yao’s cosmic virus, which was the core of the whole thing. Then, the enormous data that belonged to them was wrapped up layer by layer.

In short, the Fuxis were ‘digesting’ Lu Qingchen and Chu Zhixiao!

“It seemed to be very cautious.

Li Yao said.

“That’s for sure. After all, Fuxi has suffered a lot because of Lu Qingchen. It does want to swallow Lu Qingchen’s soul and upgrade itself with Lu Qingchen’s self-awareness, but it does not want Lu Qingchen’s self-awareness to be fully awakened. If so, it will be hard to say who will swallow who. Even if the

upgrade is completed, will the ‘thing’ after the upgrade be Fuxi or Lu Qingchen?”

The mental devil continued. “Therefore, the Fuxis have to make sure that Lu Qingchen’s memories are wiped clean in order to load their enormous database. The real process is, of course, ten thousand times more complicated than what I just said. But you won’t understand the mechanism even if I explain

it to you. Therefore, I’m giving you such an inappropriate example. You should understand such a simple example, right?”

Of course. Do you think I’ma fool?”

Li Yao roared, “It seems that we have no choice but to get in touch with the ‘soul embryo’ that the Fuxi Clan just reconstructed through the goddamn virtual worlds.

They did not have many options.

Making a fuss in the deepest part of the enemy’s central database was also an established strategy that had been planned since the very beginning.

Although there was the risk that they would be discovered or even swallowed by Fuxi, they would be waiting to be killed if they simply watched the two of them melding.

Li Yao and the mental devil were entangled again like an almost transparent nail.

Disguising themselves as the most common data of human emotions, they approached a colorful crystal bubble quietly.

It was a world that was both vivid and vivid.

Shua! Shua! Shua! shua!

As they drew closer and closer to the virtual world, the glamorous front-end pictures of the virtual world all fell off, revealing the truth that was made of endless data streams. They were like the bones of a delicate beauty that were burning furiously.

Ina moment, Li Yao and the mental devil got the key data of the virtual world and stole certain permissions to open and modify it.

Hiu!

Li Yao and the mental devil crawled in and melted into the virtual world.

It was a plain, tranquil world under the blue sky and white clouds. The scale of the world was similar to that of a habitable planet and the galaxy it was in. There was not much chaos or suffering. The Fuxi Clan did not arrange any soul-stirring, twisted, and bizarre ‘plots’. It seemed that the Fuxi Clan had

simply created such an ordinary world and had not decided what ‘game’ they were going to play with it with. Therefore, they put it aside for now.

It was also why Li Yao chose to infiltrate such an ordinary world as a ‘transfer station’.

Li Yao’s current feeling… was very wonderful.

In front of his eyes were blue sky, white clouds, green mountains, and clear waters, as well as the human towns scattered among the mountains and rivers, as well as virtual people who were full of laughter.

However, as long as he blinked, he would be able to see through heaven, earth, mountains, towns, and human beings. He would be able to see the endless data streams that were like waterfalls and swirls behind the virtual world.

In fact, he could even hack and modify some key data and change the basic characteristics of this world. He could summon wind and rain, move mountains and overturn seas, and even split the heavens and the earth. He was omnipotent, just like the ‘god’ of this world.

Of course, Fuxi, as the creator, was the ‘righteous god’ of the virtual world, and Li Yao, as the intruder, was merely the ‘evil god’ of the world..